Humayun's Tomb

The first Mughal emperor Babur, was by his son, Humayun, which ruled India for a decade, but has been marketed successfully. Finally, he fled with the Safavid Shah of Persia, he again contributed Delhi in 1555, the year before his death. Humayun's wife Hamida Begum Persian, supervised the 1562-1572 construction of the tomb of her husband in New Delhi. The architect Mirak Mirza Ghiyuath Persian and had designed buildings in Herat (north-western Afghanistan today), Bukhara (now Uzbekistan), and other parts of India. The location for the building on the banks of the Yamuna river borders selected, important to the shrine of a Sufi saint for Chistiyya, Nizam al-Din Awliya. The Chistiyya was mainly due to the Mughals, the son of Humayun, Akbar, who built his new palace at Fatehpur Sikri, near the revered shrine of another saint Chistiyya order.

Garden grave Humayun's Tomb is on the road near the junction with the Mathura road to Lodi. High stone walls, the construction of a Square Garden first separated into four large squares by dams and channels from each other, each square divided again into smaller squares by pathways ('Chaharbagh ") than in a typical Mughal garden. The mausoleum is high in the middle dominate the housing and rises from a podium in front of a row of cells with arched openings.

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The octagonal central chamber containing the cenotaph by an octagonal room on the diagonals and arched lobbies on surrounding sites, their openings closed with perforated screens. emphatic three sheets each side, the central higher. This plan is repeated on the second floor, and a high dome, 42.5 million more than double the Marble Bar is on the roof ("chhatris") placed around it. The structure of red sandstone built But white and black marble has been used to relieve the monotony, the latter largely limits. Ashanullah El Hakim Khan Haveli Haveli Hakeem Ashanullah Khan, the emperor's personal physician Bahdur Shah Zafar, was a stronghold for those who are hiding here during the time of "Ghadar" the mutiny of the sepoys.